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CHARLES DRAEGER, or `LADOGA INDIANA.` Letters, Parma No. 66,686, am July 16, 1867.

IMiPROVED WASHING MACHINE.

TO ALL `WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES' DRAEGER, of Ladoga, in the county of Montgomery, and State oflndiana, have invented new and useful improvements in Washing Machinesg and Ido hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference'being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figui-e1 is a side view of the oscillating frame in which the rollers are hung.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal'section through the machine.

-Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The following description will enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention.

A is the framework to which all the other parts are attached.4 The washboard is semieireular, and is composed ot: Wooden slats or ribs C C C C, tc., attached to segmental ring-pieces D, also of wood, and is enclosed by the external case of sheet metal E. The clothes are to be laid upon the Wash-board B, and subjected to pressure of the weighted rollers F, which are composed of metal encased Withwooden'ribs, as shown, or 1113.3Y be made of ribbed Wooden cylinders, and bored out and iilled with lead. These rollers are three in number, and are hung in slotted bearings in the oscillating frame G in a manner to cause the outside rollers, as well as the middle one, to gravitate toward and press upon the surface of the wash-board, throughout its entire length,

. during the oscillations of the frame G. This is eil'ected by making the slots in which the two outside rollers are hung at such an angle to the radii drawn from the cent the inner edge of the slot will present an incline to the roller-pivots as the rollers are' carried by the oscillations of the frame to the upper part of the Wash-board. The slots permit the rollers to conform to the quantity and position of the clothes, Without detraeting from their effective operation thereon. Although not shown as detachable from the case E, Icontemplate constructing the wash-board in a separate detachable frame for the convenience of removing, to facilitate cleaning the machine. By having the external case of sheet metal, a small stove may be arranged beneath it for the purpose of heating thctwatcr, if desired. The oscillating frame G is hung by pivots in bearings in the upper edge of the frame, or case, and when putting in or removing the clothes the frame is turned down and held by hook I, which hooks over the cross-bar connecting the levers H. The water is drawn off from the machine by means of a cock or spout at the bottom of the ease. The clothes arc washed by oscillating the frame G by mea-ns of the levers H, and being alternately saturated with the suds, which are then squeezed out by pressure of the rollers, they soon become thoroughly cleansed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire' to secure by Letters Patent, is i 1. The employment of the weighted rollers F, hung in slotted bearings in the oscillating frame G, and arranged to operate substantially in the manner set forth.

2. -The semicircular Wash-board, in combination with the Weighted rollers and oscillating frame, arranged and operatingsubstantially as described. y

" CHARLES DRAEGER,

Witnesses:

O. F. MAYBEW, .JOHN Orr.

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